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Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees AM is an
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, human rights activist and author who is the founder of the
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at the Centre for
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at the
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Education

He holds a
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, a
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, a Certificate of Social Casework and a
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.


Academic career

From 1978 to 2000 Rees was
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at the University of Sydney. For years Rees taught a post-graduate unit titled "Passion, Peace and Poetry" at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, in which he integrated poetry with a study of the great non-violence leaders such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King. A similar use of poetry to illustrate the theme of peace with justice runs through many of his publications. Prior to this he taught at
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and
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in the
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, at
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and
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in
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, and at the
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and the
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in the United States. Rees' awards include a Simon Fellowship at the
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, a Humanities Fellowship at the
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, the Jerusalem Peace Prize, and an honorary doctorate and the Award of Highest Honour for 'Significant Contributions to World Peace' conferred in 1998 by Soka University, Japan. For four years he was an elected Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney. In 2005 he was awarded the Order of Australia for services to international relations.


Other activities

For six years he was a member of the Aboriginal Reconciliation Council of New South Wales and is currently a council member of the Toda Research Institute into Global Governance and Human Security. Between 2004-2010, Professor Rees chaired the NSW Energy Council. Rees' publications include numerous books and over one hundred journal articles on social justice, health care and welfare services, critiques of free market economics, the human costs of management practices and the attributes of peace negotiations and humanitarianism in social policy. Rees has also published three anthologies of poetry: The Jury’s Return (1992), Tell Me the Truth About War (2004) and A Will to Live (2014). Rees has been a human rights activist in several countries and his non-academic activities have included community development, probation services and social work in the UK and
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; work with ''War on Poverty'' programs in the U.S.A.; and work with the
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non-governmental organisation in
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; co-architect of the West Papua Social Justice project; and co architect of the Sri Lankan project for the human rights of the Tamil minority. Rees is a regular broadcaster on Australia's
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Radio about the "means and meaning of peace with justice" is also a regular New Matilda contributo

In 2012, Rees spoke about Pablo Picasso as a lifelong advocate of peace at the Art Gallery NSW (Art After Hours

Rees is a regular convenor at 'Politics in the Pub

His most recent discussion - 'War, Peace & Propaganda: John Pilger in conversation with Professor Stuart Rees'. Rees is an active supporter of the worldwide
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(BDS) movement which promotes Palestinian peoples' rights to self-determination. Rees has defended his efforts to convince the University of Sydney to sever ties with Israeli institutions. At a rally held in August 2013, Rees was personally supported by Australian MP
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. In 2013, Rees sharply criticised
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for signing the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism. Rees described Gillard's signing of the declaration as "childish, thoughtless but easily populist."


Honours

In 2005 he was awarded a Member of the
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''for service to international relations, particularly as Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney and through the establishment of the Sydney Peace Prize''.


Bibliography

* Social Work Face to Face (1979) * Verdicts on Social Work (1982) * A Brutal Game: Patients and the Doctors' Dispute (1986) * Achieving Power: Practice and Policy in Social Welfare (1991) * The Jury's Return (1992) * Beyond the Market: Alternatives to Economic Rationalism (1993) * The Human Costs of Managerealism: Advocating the Recovery of Humanity (1995) * Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility: A Dialogue (2000) * Passion for Peace: Exercising Power Creatively (2003) * Tell Me The Truth About War (2004) * Inspirations for Peace: Pablo Picasso, Noam Chomsky and their Friends (2012) * Gandhi Legacy: The International Priorities (2013) * A Will To Live (2014) * A Conversation on the Philosophy of Peace and the Poetic Spirit(A dialogue between Dr. Daisaku Ikeda and Dr. Stuart Rees)(2014) * A Lover’s Country (2016)


References

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